TABLE 3.
Relationship between respondents’ social demographic characteristics and the experience of intimate partner violence.
| Variables | Experienced IPV |
X2 | p | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes |
No |
|||||
| n | % | n | % | |||
| Age (in years) | ||||||
| < 20 | 16 | 84.2 | 3 | 15.8 | 3.393 | 0.494 |
| 20–29 | 54 | 73.0 | 20 | 27.0 | ||
| 30–39 | 55 | 84.6 | 10 | 15.4 | ||
| 40–49 | 35 | 79.5 | 9 | 20.5 | ||
| ≥ 50 | 6 | 85.7 | 1 | 14.3 | ||
| Educational level achieved | ||||||
| No education | 6 | 85.7 | 1 | 14.3 | 2.231 | 0.526 |
| Primary | 48 | 80.0 | 12 | 20.0 | ||
| Secondary | 82 | 82.0 | 18 | 18.0 | ||
| College/tertiary | 30 | 71.4 | 12 | 28.6 | ||
| Belong to group/association | ||||||
| Yes | 78 | 72.9 | 29 | 27.1 | 5.719 | 0.017 |
| No | 88 | 86.3 | 14 | 13.7 | ||
| Current marital status | ||||||
| Married | 113 | 79.6 | 29 | 20.4 | 0.055 | 0.973 |
| Cohabiting | 21 | 77.8 | 6 | 22.2 | ||
| Alone | 32 | 80.0 | 8 | 20.0 | ||
| Length of marriage (years) | ||||||
| £5 | 72 | 79.1 | 19 | 20.9 | 4.214 | 0.746 |
| 6–10 | 30 | 73.2 | 11 | 26.8 | ||
| 11–15 | 20 | 90.9 | 2 | 9.1 | ||
| 16–20 | 20 | 76.9 | 6 | 23.1 | ||
| 21–25 | 9 | 81.8 | 2 | 18.2 | ||
| > 25 | 15 | 83.3 | 3 | 16.7 | ||
| Formal marriage ceremony | ||||||
| Civil | 25 | 96.2 | 1 | 3.8 | 8.928 | 0.030 |
| Religious | 19 | 65.5 | 10 | 34.5 | ||
| Customary | 58 | 82.9 | 12 | 17.1 | ||
| None | 64 | 76.2 | 20 | 23.8 | ||
IPV, intimate partner violence.